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Here’s what the 28-year-old actress, who co-wrote, produced, and stars in Another Earth had to share with the mag:

On her career change from economics to film: “I was just, like, wait. I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find out that I haven’t lived it with any courage.”

On how she prepares for a project: “I spend a lot of time sitting in a chair, looking out a window, just daydreaming about the conditions or circumstances of the story until it begins to feel real, until it begins not to feel separately from me any more.”